Possible severe gales - Part 2

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

:) in case I'm not back by the time the other one fills up.

He's home!

There don't appear to be any red warnings? Am i right in thinking that it isn't panning out as severe as previously thought? or am i talking too soon?

As always a fascinating thread reading what everyone is experiencing.

to OYBBK

NE Wilts reporting here. Still gusty with short sharp downpours of rain, as it's been all day.

Everything that can be charged is being charged. Torches and candles found. Food that can be cooked on the gas hob in stock. Plenty of wood chopped and ready - although still very mild.

And yes, I did panic buy and have in fact started on it already...

I have a new client starting her new job tomorrow, so she's particularly determined to get to work, trouble is she's six miles away and the route is either tiny country lanes or thick ancient forest. She's booked a walkies for her terrier at about 11 a.m.

We have Red Warning in Jersey

Also a Buoy 5 miles south just recorded a 21ft wave.

Lem hopefully it won't be as bad.

Oh Jersey - keep safe.

I do have an advantage here that any waves tend to get slowed down by the IOW if they're coming from the right direction!

S. Glos: wind has dropped and rain stopped ...

Nothing yet here in Cheltenham, couple of really heavy downpours though.
Dh is working till 11 so I hope he's back before Anything starts.

Why are the BBC and Met Office forecasts always slightly different......I always thought the BBC Weather Forecasters were Met Office employees? Suddenly it seems my max wind strength will now only reach the heady speed on 24mph, yet the Met Office Shipping Forecast is still at Force 11.......?

So OYBBK - what is this 'circular feature' that people on the UKWW are talking about....?

bit of heavy rain and some thunder and lightening last night, windy most of today with one heavy shower, then tonight the wind has dropped but the rain is quite heavy. totally
unthreatening at the moment but DH keeps saying 'its coming... its coming in tomorrow morning ah we are all doomed I say.' waiting to see what happens but we have weighted down anything in the garden and side passage that needs it and made sure the bricks are on top of the recycling bags. should be safe enough and both DS's are accounted for and safe at others housets.

Bit of a nostalgic story for you all in the storm spirit of things

Anyone remember the storms of 1994? Started Southern France/ Northern Spain and worked their way down to the UK?

I was camping with parents and siblings in France (south) and we watched a huge black cloud coming across the sea whilst enjoying the unusual med surf! We decided to run leave beach with a whole gaggle of people as it near and suddenly hit with amazing thunder and lightening and bending trees in two. Spain had severe floods coming down from pyranese - apparently it was a tornado!

Travel back down through to Northern France a week or so later and arrive at ferry port. Another warning of severe gales and ferry delays etc. Parents tried to book a hotel but could only get 1 room in a formula 1. Tried to sneak us all in pay for extra people but wouldn't allow it due to H&S! So Ddad dropped me and mum off at ferry port. Quite a number of people in there and then cleaner comes along saying we have to all be out by midnight as closes!
Security allowed us to stay until 3am - but then had to kick us out as bosses were coming in. Had to sit outside in a gap in a concrete wall whilst wind rain and T&L lashed around us and were there with a family (dad and 2 DD's from Gurnsey). They had recently lost their mum/DW and I often think of them.

Let us back in ferry terminal at 6am. Finally board ferry, delay in leaving port due to squal, eventually get to cross the channel and it took 9 hours!

Best bit was because they were closing restaurant due to vomiting people everywhere and I got upset (remember I'd been outside half the night!) they gave me a free breakfast - the full works and a muffin

I was 14 and 1 week old at the time!

Have some other weather related stories that would amuse you OYBBK too!

BBC have just downgraded my 'forecast' max wind to 22mph........hardly excessive?

Check in from Devon:

Weather station on the back fence (below roof level, so not very representative) says: pressure 979.9 hPa and falling (as expected), 9.7C, 1.8ml rain in the last hour and wind speed is 0.0.

But the warnings haven't kicked in yet (8pm for rain, midnight for wind).

DH has already proclaimed himself "too excited to sleep!"

I'm in the Plymouth area, and we've had heavy rain for a little while and it seems to be getting heavier. I was out riding further down in Cornwall on Saturday, and a couple of trees had come down in the wind then because the ground was so wet, so I do think there could be problems, even if the winds don't get that high.

At the moment there doesn't seem to be much in the way of winds though.

Good luck all. We're not in the storm path here although there are very strong gusts and rough seas - but that's nothing unusual here. Very interesting to hear about what's going on. TBH I thought at first there was lots of hysteria about this but other thread was v eye-opening about problems caused by wind in SE (densely built, trees not used to a battering etc). Funnily enough we don't have lots of big oak trees etc here - they probably just don't get the chance to grow!

LtEve, I'm not too far from you, just a bit further inland. Good luck in the caravan, hope it's not as bad as forecast!

Calm here now, but throwing it down. Opened the emergency wine ;)

Really quiet here in Herts, enjoying it while it lasts. Our windows in the bedroom and living room both have tiny holes somewhere, so when it's windy it gets a bit loud in here.

Well it was positively biblical here on the Isle of Wight earlier, but seems to have dropped right off - is this expected OYBBK, or is going through at a different time/area of country than expected?
www.bramblemet.co.uk/(S(woyhiu3l5k2vbkvghew0j4uy))/wind.aspx

tbh pseudo - I'm not entirely sure. I think they think that it is starting to become convective - if that happens there is more chance for severe gusts to come from aloft to the surface.

12legged - its expected :)

Kitten and all, thank you so much for all the helpful info. Oxfordshire here, it was very gusty earlier today, so thought it was the beginning of the storm, but has now calmed a lot, so maybe it was nothing to do with the predicted storm. Rain on and off. We are expecting the worst of it between 3am and 6am. I don't think it has really started yet. Hope everyone is okay, and we all get some sleep.

what a dramatic holiday youarewinning!